More than 50 people attended a protest against the recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests in Wisconsin. The protest was held Wednesday night at the Farmers Market on Broadway in Green Bay.(Photo: Samantha Hernandez/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)Buy Photo

GREEN BAY - In response to recent arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, a Green Bay teen arranged a protest Wednesday night at the Farmers Market on Broadway.

Angela Colmenares, 17, of Green Bay was moved to arrange the peaceful protest against ICE after seeing news reports about people arrested over the weekend. ICE conducted a four-day "enforcement surge" in 14 Wisconsin counties between Friday and Monday. A total of 83 people were arrested, including nine from Brown County.

Angela Colmenares of Green Bay, 17, used Facebook to arrange Wednesday's protest in downtown Green Bay over the recent arrests of people by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.(Photo: Samantha Hernandez/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)

Colmenares created a public Facebook event and 340 people indicated wanting to attend. She was pleased with the more than 50 people who came carrying signs in support of immigrant families.

Colmenares, who immigrated from Mexico at the age of 3, hopes people affected by the arrests and all immigrants know they are supported.

"I wouldn't want to feel that feeling of seeing an ICE officer knowing you're illegal, that's pretty scary. You're probably not going to see your family again and you know they probably don't want to leave," she said. "You made a life here. You don't want to leave what you worked so hard for."

Colmenares led the protest carrying a sign that read "Familias Unidas" or united families. The protesters walked through the Farmers Market on Broadway quietly holding up their signs and chanted on the side streets. Passers-by shouted encouragement and some drivers honked their horns.

People attend the protest for different reasons.

Victoria Hollon of Green Bay took part because of the recent arrests and the Trump administration's handling of immigration issues.

Hollon kept her son, who is Hispanic, home from school Wednesday because of fears he might be taken by immigration. Hollon, who is Native American and a lifelong resident of Green Bay, had her son in Mexico because of pregnancy complications while on vacation. He has dual citizenship but a Mexican birth certificate.

Her decision to not send her son to school stemmed from Facebook posts about ICE taking area children out of school and arresting parents who came to pick up their children.

On Tuesday, Green Bay School District officials tried to allay fears about students being taken from school.

“Absent a warrant or an authorization from a family, we wouldn’t turn a child over to any adult whether it be from ICE or it be any other government agency or any other third party that would come to our schools,” Green Bay schools attorney Melissa Thiel Collar said. “We’ve trained our principals, we’ve trained our front office staff who to release kids to and who to release student information to.”

Some, like 11-year-old Julyssa Denny, went to simply let immigrants know they are welcome in this country.

"I think everyone is welcome in America. It's OK if you're a different nationality, you should be welcome here no matter what," Julyssa said.